Convertible coin rolling machine



Dec. 5, 1950 M. E. SCHNEIDER 2,533,144

CONVERTIBLE COIN ROLLING MACHINE Filed Dec. 12, 1947 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Patented Dec. 5, 1950 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE CONVERTIBLE COIN ROLLING MACHINE Max E. Schneider, San Antonio, Tex.

Application December 12, 1947, Serial No. 791,427

6 Claims.

This invention relates to devices for applying wrappers to rolls of coins wherein the coins are rolled and wrapped by hand, and in particular a base with an inclined upper surface having adjustable coin holding means and guides for retaining the coin holding means in position upon the base as a wrapper is rolled around the coins.

The purpose of this invention is to expedite wrapping rolls of coins by providing a device in the form of a jig in which coins may readily be positioned, clamped in a roll, and wrapped while held by the clamping means.

Various devices have been provided for stacking and arranging coins for rolling but it is customary to remove the rolls of coins with the rolls gripped between the thumb and forefinger so that the rolls may be positioned upon a wrapper or the like and in this step the rolls sometimes bulge or the coins slide so that it is necessary to rearrange the coins in the roll. With this thought in mind this invention contemplates a small unique machine on which coins may be rolled in which the coins are clamped and wrapped while held by the clamping means and without being removed from the machine.

The object of this invention is, therefore, to provide a comparatively small stand on which coins may be arranged in rolls wherein the rolls of coins are positioned on wrappers and wrapped on the upper surface of the stand.

Another object of the invention is to provide a stand which facilitates wrapping rolls of coins in which the parts may readily be adjusted for coins of different denominations.

Another object of the invention is to provide a stand on which rolls of coins may readily be wrapped in which the coins are clamped in rolls as they are wrapped and from which the wrapped rolls may readily be removed.

A further object of the invention is to provide a coin roll wrapping stand which is of a simple and economical construction.

With these and other objects and advantages in view the invention consists of the new and novel combination, construction, and arrangement of parts as hereinafter more fully described, set forth in the claims appended hereto, and disclosed in the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, wherein:

of the stand looking toward the lower or starting end thereof.

Figure 4 is a longitudinal section through the machine taken on line 4-2 of Figure 1.

Figure 5 is a cross section through the stand taken on line 5--5 of Figure 2.

Figure 6 is a cross section through the low end of the stand taken on line 66 of Figure 2.

Figure 7 is a cross section through the stand .taken on line l'l of Figure 2.

Figure 8 is a detail showing a plate for adjustably mounting a coin holding roller on the stand.

Figure 9 is a detail taken on line 99 of Figure 2 showing the upper guide frame with parts omitted.

Figure 10 is a detail showing a section through the outer end of the stand taken substantially on line 44 of Figure 1, with the parts on an enlarged scale and with parts broken away.

Referring now to the drawings wherein like reference characters indicate corresponding parts the coin rolling machine of this invention includes a stand ID, a guide frame having sides H and I2, and a mounting plate I3.

The stand it is formed with an inclined upper surface [4 with sides [5 and I6, and a low end H and a high and I8. The lower edges of the sides are provided with flanges l9 and and suction cups 2! are mounted in the flanges as illustrated in Figure 6 whereby the stand will be held in operative position upon a flat surface while coins are being rolled thereon.

The sides [I and I2 of the guide frame are connected at the lower end by a roller 22, and at the upper end by a rod 23, the ends 24 and 25 of which are journaled in the upwardly extending ends 26 and 21 of a U-shaped frame 28 that is mounted on the upper surface l5 of the stand by screws 29, as shown in Figure 4, or by rivets 30 as shown in Figure 10. The rod 23 is provided with a tongue 3! that is held with an adjusting screw 32, and the screw is provided with a spring 33 and a lock nut 3d. The spring 33 urges the tongue 3| upward thereby holding the roller 22 downward, and by turning the screw 32 by the thumb nut 35 the tongue may be drawn downward so that the roller 22 may be adjusted upward wherein the guide will accommodate coins of larger diameters. The sides H and 12 are provided with slots 36 and 37 with the ends connected at the lower end to the roller 22 by bars 38 and 39, as shown in Figure 9, and the roller is mounted in the bars by pins t0 and ii. The upper ends of the sides are rigidly connected to the rod 23 by posts 42 and 43, and it will be noted that the lower edges of the sides extend downwardly overlapping the sides of the stand ID.

The mounting plate I3 is longitudinally slidable on the upper surface [4 of the stand and is held to the stand by a thumb screw 44 that extends through an opening :35 in the plate and a slot 46 in the stand, and the inner end of the screw is secured by a lock nut 41 which is prevented from turning by a lug 48 on the under side of the upper surface M. The ends of the mounting plate l3 are provided with guide posts 49 and i! and bearings 5! and 52 are provided in the inner edge in which a roller 53 is journaled by pins 54 and 55 at the ends thereof. The roller 53 is positioned to coact with a slot 56- in the upper surface E4 of the stand so that coins may be set against the surface thereof with the upper part of the coins contacting the roller 22. The rollers 22 and 53 are, therefore, adjustably mounted whereby the device may be set to accommodate coins of different sizes.

The coins may be clamped on the stand by thumb screws 5'! and 58 which are threaded in bearings 55: and 83, that are slidably held in the slots 36 and 3'! of the sides of the guide frame wherein with coins clamped between the thumb screws the coins may be rolled along the upper surface of the stand. Th bearings 59 and 63 are provided with annular recesses 5i and 62 and the inner ends of the screws are provided with gripping collars t3 and aid that contact the coins.

With the parts arranged in this manner a coin wrapper may be placed upon the upper surface It of the stand and the coins counted and positioned to form a roll, as shown by the dotted lines in Figure l, with the lower edges contacting the rollers 22 and 53. The thumb screws El and 58 may then be tightened against the ends of the coin roll and by turning the thumb screws with the thumbs and forefingers of the hands the roll of coins with the wrapper may be rolled on the rollers. After the wrapper is rolled around the roll of coins the thumb screws may be unscrewed and the ends of the wrapper crimped over the ends of the coins, or the roll may be twisted diagonally and removed and then the wrapper crimped at the ends.

fhe stand is adapted for coins of different denominations and sizes as the rollers 22 and 53 may be adjusted to coins of larger or smaller diameters, and as the roller 22 is adjusted the slots in the sides of guide frame are also adjusted to the proper elevation in realtion to the stand.

The bearings 5i and 52 at the corners of the plate 53 in which the roller 53 is mounted and also the bearings 59 and til in which the screws 5? and 55 are threaded may be formed of plain iron nuts and the nuts may be welded to the plates or other parts, and the nuts 55 and 52 may be bored out to form bearings, as may be desired.

It will also he noted that after the roll of coins is assembled the roll of coins with the wrapper is rolled on the rollers at the lower end of the stand by hand, and the thumb screws are only moved up in the slots to take out the completed wrapped roll of coins.

It will be understood that modifications may be made in the design or arrangement of parts without departing from the spirit of the invention.

What is claimed is:

1. A coin. rolling machine comprising a stand having an inclined upper surface, a guide frame having sides with aligned longitudinally disposed slots therein pivotally mounted on the stand adjacent the upper end thereof, a coin holding roller carried by the lower end of the guide frame, a transversely disposed roller positioned to coact with the coin holding roller for positioning coins on the stand, and coin clamping means slidably mounted in the slots in the sides of the guide frame whereby a roll of coins secured between the clamping means are rolled upwardly over a wrapper on the said inclined upper surface for positioning the wrapper around the roll of coins.

2. A coin rolling machine comprising a stand having an inclined upper surface, a guide frame having sides with aligned longitudinally disposed slots therein pivotally mounted on the stand adjacent the upper end thereof, a coin holding roller carried by the lower end of the guide frame, means adjusting the elevation of the lower end of the guide frame and roller carried thereby in relation to the upper surface of the stand, a-transversely disposed roller positioned to coact with the coin holding roller for positioning coins on the stand, and coin clamping means slidably mounted in the slots in the sides of the guide frame whereby a roll of coins secured between the clamping means are rolled upwardly over a wrapper on the said inclined upper surface for positioning the wrapper around the roll of coins.

3. A. coin rolling machine comprising a stand having an inclined upper surface, a guide frame having sides with aligned longitudinally disposed slots therein p-ivotally mounted on the stand at a point adjacent the upper end thereof, a coin holding ro er carried by the lower end of the guide frame, a transversely disposed roller positioned to coact with the coin holding roller for positioning coins on the stand, means adjustably mounting the said transversely disposed roller on the stand, and coin clamping means slidably mounted in the slots in the sides of. the said guide frame whereby a roll of coins secured between the cl ping means are rolled upwardly over a wrapper on the said inclined upper surface for positioning the wrapper around the roll of coins.

4. A coin rolling machine comprising a stand having an inclined upper surface, a guide frame having sides with aligned longitudinally disposed slots therein mounted on the stand, a-v coin stop carried by the lower ends of the sides of the guide frame, a, coin holding roller parallel to the stop and positioned to coact therewith for positioning coins on the stand, means adjusting the position i the coin holding roller on the stand, and thumb screws threaded in bearings slidably mounted through he hearings in the slots in the sides of the guide frame.

5. A coin rolling machine comprising a stand having an inclined upper surface, a guide frame having sides with aligned longitudinally disposed slots therein positioned on the stand, means pivotally mounting the guide frame on the stand at the upper end thereof, a thumh screw for adjusting the position of the guide frame, a spring coaicting with the thumb screw urging the guide frame against the thumb screw, a coin holding rollercarried by the lower end of the guide frame, a transversely disposed roller positioned to coact with the coin holding roller to position a roll of coins on the stand, means adjusting the position of the transversely disposed roller longitudinally of the stand, bearings slidably mounted in the slots in the sides of the guide frame, and thumbscrews threaded in the said bearings.

, Number 5 rolls of coins on the stand with the said rolls of e'oins adapted to roll for wrapping.

"- MAX E. SCHNEIDER.

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ilfhe following references are of record in the file of this patent:

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